A WOMAN has died after being involved in a head-on crash while driving on the wrong side of the road in South Lanarkshire.
The 27-year-old woman's BMW 318 was travelling eastbound on the westbound carriageway of the A725 Hamilton Road at High Blantyre when it hit a Ford Mondeo, which then hit an HGV.
The woman died shortly after the incident, which happened at 9.40pm on Wednesday.
The 62-year-old Mondeo driver was treated for minor injuries and the HGV driver, 48, was uninjured.
The crash happened near the off slip for Hamilton Technology Park.
Police are working on the belief it was not a deliberate act and a full road traffic investigation is under way. They are appealing for witnesses to the crash to contact them.
"It is strange. We don't know whether she was lost, whether it was she didn't know the road or whether she was unwell," said a police source.
The woman died in Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.
In April on the same stretch of road, a man was killed after the lorry he was driving struck a lamp post.
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